Inverno
Brasseria della Fonte in Pienza (SI), Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.03
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Inverno from Brasseria della Fonte 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Italian BBA stout, tasted from tap at Kantien in Ghent. Pale yellowish beige, moussy ring lacing in dots over a black beer with hazy mahogany edges. Aroma of hot chocolate sauce, varnish, bourbon, coffee, walnut liqueur, toffee, toasted brown bread, cigar tobacco, burnt wood, charred barbecue meat, treacle. Sweet onset, candied dates and figs, light soy sauce-like umami note, prickling carb (a bit much for this style even), thick and oily, resinous body consisting of a thick, luscious layer of toffeeish and chocolatey maltiness, sweet initially but quickly shifting to a firm, chicory- and coffee-like roasted bitterness accentuated by an equally firm dosis of boozy bourbon heating the back. Woody tannins are there but relatively subtly so, solventy glue- and paint thinner-like aspects do come up retronasally; ends hot, bittersweet and toasty. Classic and successful interpretation of the BBA 'impy' standard set by Bourbon County Brand Stout, but compared with that famous example, lacking a bit in complexity and restraint and a tad too obviously alcoholic for me personally.
Marko (21878) reviewed Inverno from Brasseria della Fonte 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Huge thanks Bazz! Shared with him, Vran & Sandi ST. Extremely dark brown body, nearly black, tiny tan head. Complex aroma, coconut, cocoa, dark malts, some bourbon, some vague bubblegum esters too, clean and lean. Lean and thin taste, dark malts bringing some of their tartness, smooth edges, as expected, solid malty presence, maybe some bourbon again, but low-key, quite drinkable for the ABV, solid, but not particularly thrilling. Just lacked complexity. Still, would have it again!